High profile Malacateco come to Municipal after their 1-2-result against Comunicaciones. Check out our thorough match preview!
- Municipal have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8) in Liga Nacional
- Malacateco have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Liga Nacional
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Municipal and Malacateco.
Municipal form and stats
Municipal have collected 18 points from their Liga Nacional home games so far after 5-3-3. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Municipal after consecutive victories at their own ground.
Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper not having conceded a league goal in 229 minutes.
It's back home for Municipal, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Xinabajul away with the result 1-0.
Before that, Municipal had a home game versus Cotzumalguapa which ended with a victory 2-0.Not much happening? In this club's last 14 league matches, 11 have contained two goals or less.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Municipal as they are travelling to their away game against Malacateco in the Liga Nacional. That match is three days after this one.
Municipal are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 15 goals in 11 games.
Malacateco form and stats
Malacateco have only collected 5 points from their away games in the Liga Nacional, after 1-2-8 (11 played). The pressure to perform on the road is increasing on Pat, the Malacateco manager, as the last three away games were defeats.
Malacateco play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 1-2 to Comunicaciones.
That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Xinabajul.Betting fact: Both teams have scored in 12 of this club's latest 16 league fixtures.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Municipal in just three days.
The visitors have scored 10 goals from 11 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As for defending, Malacateco rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 19 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Oddly enough, the last time Malacateco kept a "clean sheet" was also facing this opponent, five league games ago (Malacateco - Municipal 1-0). Numbers for the previous ten meetings between these two sides are: four wins for Municipal, three draws and three wins for Malacateco. Over 2,5 goals: five times; under 2,5 goals: five games.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Rotondi 3 goals | M. Portillo Castro 1 goals | J. Méndez 1 goals |
Municipal missing players
Malacateco missing players
| Municipal | Malacateco | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 22 | 11 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 11 | 22 |
| 9 | 5 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| 6 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | 3 | 3 | Lost | L | 2 | 8 | 8 |
| 31 | 15 | 3 | Scored | S | 1 | 10 | 30 |
| 22 | 11 | 8 | Conceded | C | 3 | 19 | 26 |
| 91% | 91% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 91% | 95% |
| 59% | 64% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 82% | 73% |
| 36% | 27% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 64% | 55% |
| 32% | 27% | 67% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 18% | 18% |
| 23% | 27% | 67% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 9% | 9% |
| 45% | 45% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 73% | 64% |
| 36% | 45% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 18% | 32% |
| 27% | 18% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 67% | 18% | 9% |
| 4.9 | 5.8 | 6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.7 | 3.7 | 3.7 |
| 4.5 | 4.4 | 7.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 6.4 | 5 |
| 2.8 | 3 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.6 | 2.5 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10.3 | 11 | 6.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 7.3 | 7.4 |
| 4 | 3.7 | 2.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5 | 2.9 | 3.7 |
| 35% | 37% | 43% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 7% | 31% | 37% |
| 9.3 | 6.3 | 8.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11.3 | 12.8 | 9.7 |
| 3.4 | 2.3 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 5.3 | 4.5 |
- Malacateco have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Malacateco have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (5) in Liga Nacional
- Malacateco have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Liga Nacional
- Municipal have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (8) in Liga Nacional
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Antigua GFC | 22 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 47 | 27 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 19 | 17 | 20 | 41 |
| 2 | Coban Imperial | 22 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 35 | 27 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 20 | 8 | 39 |
| 3 | Comunicaciones | 22 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 33 | 25 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 39 |
| 4 | Malacateco | 22 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 30 | 26 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 4 | 34 |
| 5 | Municipal | 22 | 9 | 6 | 7 | 31 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 33 |
| 6 | Guastatoya | 22 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 20 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 30 |
| 7 | Xelaju | 22 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 29 | 22 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 29 |
| 8 | Achuapa | 22 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 27 | 37 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 25 | -10 | 28 |
| 9 | Iztapa | 22 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 31 | 35 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 21 | -4 | 27 |
| 10 | Xinabajul | 22 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 23 | 29 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 19 | -6 | 26 |
| 11 | Mixco | 22 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 17 | 35 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 16 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 19 | -18 | 16 |
| 12 | Cotzumalguapa | 22 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 40 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 18 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 22 | -20 | 15 |
